It took several months and a lawsuit, but a judge agreed that legal contracts are public records.
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The Lens appoints interim editor
Longtime reporter Marta Jewson named interim editor.
Posted inHealth
About this project
The Center for Public Integrity and Columbia Journalism Investigations collaborated on this project with newsrooms around the country.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Soros accepts Ridenhour Prize for Courage in an age of lies
Ron Ridenhour’s letter changed the history of a war.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Election Day 2016 peculiarities and irregularities in the New Orleans area
Our staff is collecting and catching up with any unusual reports today from the polls.
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Loyola student covering charter schools for The Lens wins national honor
Senior in mass communication wins First Amendment honor for tenacity regarding open-meetings laws.
Posted inSchools
Webcast: graduation rates and job readiness part of WYES coverage
Joint education reporting initiative will examine options for students after high school.
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Michael Sartisky leaves board of The Lens; CPA Bev Nichols becomes a director
The Lens board of directors welcomes a longtime supporter of our nonprofit newsroom.
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The Lens hires prizewinner Tyler Bridges to cover public policy
Veteran prize-winning reporter Tyler Bridges will become a staff writer with The Lens on Oct. 1, focusing on state-level public-policy decisions that affect the New Orleans area. Bridges is returning to New Orleans after a 16-year hiatus that took him from The Times-Picayune to The Miami Herald, where he was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
Posted inOpinion
What's with City Hall's ongoing campaign to kill District Councils?
The New Orleans City Council will soon vote on the future of citizen participation in our city. It’s an ideal mandated by both a post-Katrina amendment to the City Charter and the city’s long-overdue master plan. But despite overwhelming popular support, it appears to be in grave peril.